Friday, May 05, 2017

New Book/Old Book/ Book Club Via Inter Webs

Not necessarily with wood, nails, and a hammer, but metaphorically speaking.

Not to worry beloved reader, I haven't suddenly taken up carpentry.

In thinking about building I have realized you need good tools.

One of the tools I was given to build my life early on was the bible.

Many of you know it is a book I love to quote and ponder upon, but many of you might not know that early on in my life the family bible in my childhood home had quite a bit of dust on it and was rarely opened.

Around the time I was 13 years old I realized that my soul needed more than what the words Duran Duran was singing on the radio.

That was almost 30 years ago now (damn I'm OLD)!

As a Catholic Family I was raised to go to church every Sunday and confession on Saturday, and I was taught by very loving awesome nuns about the 10 commandments and other key scriptures, but it was the bullet point version of faith. For some strange reason though we never seemed to read the bible at home. So when the dust was blown off of that big book I wasn't quite sure what had happened.

My sister Jen started reading it first and I thought she had entered a cult of some kind.

Then my mom Ellen began to read it, and I couldn't even ask her for money to go to the movies with out her quoting something from the good book....

I also want you to know that when I first started reading the Bible it confused the Hell out of Me!

Literally I suppose the HELL was coming out of me.. (insert laughing so hard you cry emoticon here)

but for real, it is a confusing book and I get that.

It's also a very large book, in fact it is a book that has several books inside it.

Books upon books upon books.

When I read the bible for the first time, not like in Sunday School but in the comfort of my splash painted teenage room with hand prints and music notes all over the walls I had SO many questions.

I know see what a gift it was to have this incredible tool in my life at such a young age.

However, I realize that many people are still so confused, bewildered and really just not interested at all to open that big book and it makes me sad.

I can't stay sad for long...

"Aint nobody got time for that!"

So I'm happy to report that one of my all time fav

authors/speakers/storytellers/fathers/husbands/brothers from another mother has published a book to come out this month titled ;

I rarely promote books that I haven't even read yet, but I know in my knower this is one that I personally am going to enjoy, and I think you might too.

I want you to know beloved reader "the why" behind all the quotes I often refer to in the bible.

And,

I wonder if anyone out there who is reading this might consider reading this book with me via the inter webs and discussing your thoughts on it with me??

If you have ever been interested in reading the bible even just a tiny bit then this book is for you.

If you have been reading the bible and feel you have a handle on it that no one else does and that Rob Bell is a heretic ... then move along this is NOT the discussion for you.

Again I will say;

"Aint nobody got time for that!"

But if you are among one of many readers I call a beloved reader here and you trust my recommendation for a new book then;

I want YOU beloved reader to take a journey with me and read the Bible in a whole different way.

Or maybe, possibly read it for the very first time?

I'll come back to more thoughts on building after this post, but for now I just want to put this question/challenge/adventure is out there/proposition online for YOU to get this book when it comes out and read it with ME ?